However, Fuller, who adapted Gaiman’s novel for the small screen, has also broadened his palette with this series. To an extent he has re-created that style in American Gods certainly there has been sufficient balletic bloodletting.
Visualsįuller earned some renown for the visual grotesquerie of his series Hannibal, with its torrents of blood and cascades of body parts. She’s a loathsome egotist and yet, you kind of root for her. In fact Laura, a reanimated corpse who died in the act of cheating on her husband, is a more complex sell than either. I admire American Gods most for having created, in the hero’s wife Laura Moon, as involving and complicated a female character as Games of Thrones’ Cersei Lannister and Mad Men’s Peggy Olson. A regular segment in the show explores the mythology of different races. There are a number of key roles for older actors (from Ian McShane to Cloris Leachman), one of whom has a disability (McShane’s Wednesday has only one eye). It has a central gay character, who is also an Arab. Photograph: Jan Thijs/StarzĪmerican Gods has an African-Caribbean lead and three African-Caribbean gods (two male, one female). As complicated a female character as Cersei Lannister or Peggy Olson … Laura Moon with Shadow Moon.
